independence of one of the finest countries of |sident of the United States. As Chief of the the earth. His discovery of the identity of light- Government, he declined all remuneration, save ning and electricity, and the invention of the the bare payment of his official service; he had lightning-rod; the explanation of the aurora shown the same abstinence when in command of borealis and thundergusts upon electrical princi- the army. In 1796, worn out by the labors and ples, are triumphs of the philosopher. His ar- anxieties of his momentous life, he laid down dent support of the new Republic, his activity, his power and withdrew into privacy, but not judgment, and resources, speak for the states- until he had delivered to the American people, man and the lover of liberty. His language un- as his last public work, his solemn advice for adorned, but ever pure and expressive; his rea- their future self-government and conduct. His son manly and cogent, and so concise that he words of weight may be read to-day with singunever exceeded a quarter of an hour in any pub-lar advantage by the millions who enjoy the inlic address. His correspondence a model of appreciable blessings of freedom and prosperity, clearness and compendious brevity. Scrupulous- which his good right hand, sound heart, and saly punctual in all his dealings. An exemplar of gacious judgment, chiefly secured to them. If economy and regularity. His life, one of the hero-worship may be pardoned, he shall be formost instructive and encouraging studies for given for his offence shall induce in him only youth, since it exhibits the sufferings, the trials, humility-who kneels before the quiet, unprethe power, and the victory of self-command, tending shrine of Washington. temperance and industry, and the reward of genius overcoming all the dfficulties of fortune.

This is a miniature biography-the essence of many Lives, and we doubt whether in FRANKLIN'S native land, he has been more appreciatingly noticed.

Hearty praise is this-earnest, warm, sincere. PHILLIPS, albeit he saw little originality in DICKENS, and no geniality in THACKERAY, evidently had a heart filled with high emotions and generous impulses. We wish he could have a bird's-eye view of WASHINGTON's country on the 22d of February, or the Fourth of July.

The next, who ranks among "the foremost men of all this world" is one of whom it appears almost impossible for any one to speak Of a different cast, in mind and body, was an evil word or think an evil thought. We the next American niched in this gallery. never have met an educated Englishman who The bust is by HIRAM POWERS, who executdid not claim and enjoy the privilege of ad-ed those of all the other Americans there. miring the character and conduct of The We have arrived at Father of Our Country. The resemblance at Sydenham is by CANOVA. The notice runs thus:

GEORGE WASHINGTON- First President of the
United States.

Born in Virginia, United States, 1782. Died, 1799.
Aged 67.

Gen. JACKSON-President of the U. S. Born in South Carolina, United States, 1767. Died at Nashville, in Tennessee, 1845. Aged 78. The son of an Irish emigrant. He was originally destined for the Church; but he quitted school to take part in the War of Independence. The war over, he adopted the law as a profesIf we were asked to single out from ancient sion, and became Judge in Tennessee, as well as or modern story one bright unsullied example of Major-General of the forces of the same State. true greatness, of perfect patriotism, disinterest-In 1815, as Major-General of the United States, edness, consistency and self-devotion, it would be he gained a decisive victory over the English at difficult not to select GEORGE WASHINGTON. New Orleans. In 1821, appointed Governor of England, that suffered by his acts, has reason to Florida, and the next year elected member of the be proud of his surpassing glory; for he came Senate for the State of Tennessee. Elected from the common stock, and he wrought the President of the United States in 1828 and again liberty of his country by the exercise of virtues in 1832; so that he was at the head of the dear to all Englishmen, and, let us dare to say, American Government for the space of eight characteristic of their race. He received the years. An ardent democratic chief throughout most ordinary education, for he lost his father life. His Presidency was distinguished by the when ten years old; and he had to make his way development of democratic tendencies, of the in life by his own best efforts. At the age of spirit of territorial extension, and by the marked eighteen he was appointed Surveyor in Vir- encouragement of the slaveholding interest. He ginia to Lord Fairfax. At twenty, he was major successfully opposed Congress in the matter of in the colonial militia. In 1775 he took the the United States Bank, regarding it as a monocommand of the army in America against Eng-poly in the State, injurious to the general interland. How he acted from that hour until 1783, ests of the people. JACKSON was a man of Rowhen the treaty of peace was signed, what intre-man virtues, a true patriot, and of uncompropidity he exhibited-what wisdom, what cool-mising integrity, simple and austere, straightforness, what courage, what moderation, what rare ward and blunt as a soldier. self-command under defeat, for, fighting at great disadvantage, he lost more battles than he gained

Then follows another of our Worthies, well

-is known to all. In 1789, he was elected Pre-known in Europe, personally,

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS-President of the U. S. time withdraw itself, if the inhabitants of the Born at Boston, U. S., 1767. Died 1848. Aged 79. combated by Webster, and luckily for the Union, State so desired. This dangerous principle was Educated in Europe. At a tender age Private with success. Calhoun had great eloquence, Secretary to the American Minister at St. Pe- and rapid powers of generalization. He was intersburg. In 1794, appointed by Washington flexible in integrity, firm of purpose, energetic, Ambassador to the Hague. In 1809, Ambassa- laborious, and endowed with a high sense of dor to the Court of Russia. Subsequently Am- honor; devoted to his country, with an inextinbassador in London. In 1825, President of the guishable love of liberty. A moderate democrat, United States. His administration worthy of nevertheless, and a free trader. In person he his life, which was pure, disinterested, and strictly was tall and lank; his face indicated great firmhonest. Upon his death, in 1848, he left a repu-ness of character and determination. His mantation for integrity, independence, and manly ner of speaking and of gesticulation was restraightforwardness, second only to that of markable. He would walk constantly up and Washington. His habits, to the last, simple and down during his discourse, his right arm moving unostentatious, and his industry remarkable. all the while regularly backwards and forwards, His exterior was cold, but fire glowed within, for like the pendulum of a clock. his nature was as earnest as his oratory was fierce. He had a tenacious memory, great knowledge, and the faculty of speaking forcibly, clearly, and to the purpose. One of the worthies of the Great Republic.

This last statement will startle such of our

readers as had the gratification of hearing Mr. CALHOUN speak. Dr. PHILLIPS was evidently imposed upon. So far from Mr. CALHOUN being a peripatetic orator, his habit was to stand at his desk, erect and motionless, save that he used his right arm in constant up-anddown action, to give effect to his emphatic

MARTIN VAN BUREN-Ex-President of the U. S. and eloquent words. Certainly he did not

Born 1782. Still living.

"walk constantly up and down during his discourse."

Then comes the last, but not the least of the Triumvirate :

DANIEL WEBSTER

A lawyer, and an active politician in the democratic interest. From 1812 until 1820 a member of the United States Senate, during which time a keen supporter of the war with England, and for a short time Attorney-General. In 1828, Governor of the State of New York - then Secretary of State in the Cabinet of General Born in New Hampshire, U. S. 1782. Died 1852. Jackson. Vice-President in 1832, and during Gen. Jackson's second term of office. In 1836,

· American Statesman and Orator.

Aged 70.

elected President by a large majority. The prin- New England, who emigrated in 1636. A lawDescended from those Pilgrim Fathers of cipal measure of his Administration was the reestablishment of the Independent Treasury. In yer. In 1813 he took his seat in Congress for 1840, again nominated for the Presidency, but New Hampshire, war then raging with England. defeated by General Harrison, the whig candi-He advocated the war with fervid eloquence. In date. Since the close of his Presidential term in

1841, Mr. Van Buren has lived in retirement.

His popularity was not so great at the close as at the beginning of his political life.

politics a "Whig," a term corresponding to our "Conservative." An avowed opponent of the the true interests of his country, and, like our democratic party, but a still stronger friend to own Sir Robert Peel, preferred these to a dogged This notice of VAN BUREN is meagre.ceived political views. Hence, though no friend and an injurious persistence in his own preconMore full is that one of the great departed one of the illustrious Three who were removed so lately from their respective paths of usefulness and renown. We come to PoWERS'

bust of

JOHN C. CALHOUN-American Statesman. Born at Abbeville, in South Carolina, U. S. 1782. Died at Washington, 1850. Aged 68.

to slavery, WEBSTER carried on no bitter crusade against it; and hence his conciliatory policy, which, in dealing with the unhappy institu tion, maintained, through difficulty and danger, the political Union that contributes so largely to the strength and greatness of the American people. The oratory of WEBSTER was of a high order-the most classical that America has yet displayed. It was powerful, argumentative, and as remarkable for passion as for logical acumen. Of Irish descent. Educated at Yale College, He was also a scholar, with a refined taste, and and studied law at Litchfield, in Connecticut. In deeply attached to the literature of the old coun1807, admitted to the Bar. In 1811, elected to try. In person he was thick set and burly. The Congress. Secretary of war in 1817 and from countenance indicated force, without delicacy of 1825 to 1832, Vice-President of the United taste and perception; but in this respect the States. He asserted that the American Consti- countenance of DANIEL WEBSTER belied his tution was a mere federal treaty, from the condi- mind. His death, at the close of a vehement cations of which an individual State might at any reer, was serene and happy.

It is to be lamented that the Portrait Galle-blances of men who have distinguished themry is so deficient in American subjects. The selves and served mankind. Private liberality, bust of HENRY CLAY should have had a we are confident, would amply contribute, in place in companionship with CALHOUN and works of art and in money, to such a National WEBSTER, WASHINGTON and FRANKLIN. Portrait gallery; and as regards public monBut, as Dr. PHILLIPS said, this is only the ey, it is only too often wasted upon objects beginning of a national collection in England. which do not deserve it half as much as this. We should be glad to see a similar commence- With this suggestion thrown out in the hope ment in this country. New York is undoubt- that it may meet the eye of those with the edly the best locality for such a gallery. power and will to make it a reality, we take Here we have the Astor Library, and here leave, for the present, of Dr. PHILLIPS' book. we shall speedily have the Cooper Institute As very few copies of it have yet reached this -to be enriched, we trust, by the public pur-country, we look on it, (to use COLERIDGE'S chase of Dr. ABBOTT'S Egyptian antiquities; words) to be "as good as manuscript." There an unique collection, as the Pacha has prohib- is a heartiness of appreciation and a candor of ited the exportation of even a solitary speci- opinion in it, which stamps it with marked inmen of the oldest Empire in the World. If dividuality. Our readers now know, as well we cannot afford nor procure busts and stat- as we do, how our eminent countrymen are ues in marble, certainly casts can be obtained; appreciated in England. We frankly admit and, in a country like this, rich in eminent that the American estimate of British celebriportraiture, Painting as well as severer Sculp- ties is not (and cannot be) half so favorable. ture can be invoked to perpetuate the resem

CHAP. IV.

The had been long absent. It did not prove so, however, as this cruel woman had, by constant letters to their disfavor, changed his good will towards both orphans. Finding her position to be such a hopeless and unhappy one, Lucy came with her little brother to London. Here some

On! little golden cups and buds! rocked by the summer wind, cherished by the evening dew, fed by the balmy air! Your simple, graceful, natural loveliness is thus, through art, bringing a dear heart to your artist's side. Oh! simple, distant relative of her mother placed Frankland little, tender, humble meadow flowers! so radiant in the setting sun, so graceful in its sinking shadows!

Miss Moggs loved those tears; they warmed her heart; it was sympathy in keeping with her

own.

"Miss Bassett, ma'am," she went on. " is a gentlewoman even by birth. She has an uncle a very rich rector of a village in Wiltshire, and another a captain in the navy, who has been unaccountably missing for several years. Her father was a much younger brother of these gentlemen, and marrying whilst he was taking his degrees at Cambridge, he was even young when he died from an attack of fever, only four days after his little son was born. His wife did not survive him more than a year. Thus Lucy and her brother-for there were only these two children, though there is eight years' difference in their ages-were left to the care of these two uncles. Both were bachelors, and the one being almost always away at sea, they were naturally placed in the care of Mr. Bassett the rector. Still he was always more or less abroad, for he is a great collector of works of art; and thus the children were left to the care of a maiden cousin who kept his house. For several years, whilst the good seaman uncle came to and fro, her treatment of them was tolerable; but as soon as she fancied he was dead, she, to serve purposes of her own, commenced a cruel course of conduct towards both. Lucy bore it patiently for some time, hoping things might be better when her uncle the rector returned from Italy, where

in the Blue-coat School; and Lucy, seeking an engagement as daily governess, became instructress to Mr. Bowyer's three daughters. She has been so eminently successful with their education, as to make their parents prize her services beyond expression. Indeed so much has their respect increased, as to make them desirous she should reside with them; but nothing would induce her, I suppose, to quit the place where she lives at Islington, for it enables her to keep a home for her brother."

"Dear heart, and yet so young for this heavy struggle with the world," exclaimed the tender-hearted gentlewoman, lifting up her hands.

"Yes, not only for herself, but for others too," replied Miss Moggs with pride. "You know, ma'am, of course, that Mr. Bowyer's residence is in the Regent's Park. Well, ma'am, for the two past winters, after spending her whole morning there, this good young lady would return home; and then each evening, for five in the week, she set out from Islington at six o'clock, and came here. Yes, here all the way to St. Paul's Church-yard, to hold classes for our improvement in music, drawing, and general instruction. At first Mr. Bowyer smiled at her laborious trouble, and rather dicountenanced it than otherwise, for he was more against than for, the early closing movement; but when he bagan to see the effects, when he began to find the young men stay at home to join the classes, and understood from the house-keeper the great addition to the happiness and regularity of the household caused thereby, he began to

look more closely into this self-denying kindness "Let him perceive," said the young man and was at last so convinced of its admirable gravely, "when the time comes. But at preseffects as to go hand in hand with Miss Bassett ent even suspicion would be premature and in every improvement. Only see, ma'am, for wrong." yourself, some of the results of his change of opinions."

As she spoke, Miss Moggs rose and opened a door, and showed Mrs. Gibbons a noble room, lately fitted up for the young people's especial use, with two pianos, books, globes, and many other things, as assisting both instruction and amusement. And from this room opened two lesser ones, distinctly apart, for the separate use of the young ladies and the young men, that of the young ladies being even elegantly furnished.

"All these things we owe to Miss Bassett," said good Moggs, leading the way back again; "and no wonder we all highly respect hernay, love I should say, for there are those amongst us who can say so with earnest hearts." Miss Moggs stopped, for her eyes were full of

tears.

"She deserves it," said the good gentlewoman, "for it is not always that genius and goodness go together. My son says her pencil is a wonderful one."

"Yes, ma'am, it is so; for others have said it. She inherits this taste from her uncle the rector, who is, I believe, a great collector of works of

art.

But I hope, now she has given such a proof of her genius in respect to the spoon, that your firm will give her work-she has spare hours to fill up, and would be glad to earn money this way, I know."

So thought his mother. But, nevertheless, her face wore such sunny smiles that day at dinner, as to be seen at once by the old gentleman.

My dear," he asked, "what is the matter? Both you and Grinling look as if a fortune had been left you since breakfast."

"Well, David, we have had something to delight us, that is certain, and which shall delight you as soon as we have dined only wait till then."

So when the cloth was removed, and Grinling gone, the good wife brought a little parcel from a drawer, drew her seat beside her old husband, poured out his customary glass of wine, and then, with her hand in his, told him the sweet tale, with its own illustration of the lovely work of art-THE SPOON.

I cannot paint his wonder, or his pleasure, or his admiration. All three were genuine and exceeding: one thing, however, I sadly fear,-that the good little gentlewoman, in her volubility, dropped some word or other she ought not; for the old gentleman at once popped upon the secret, and guessed it, as far as guessing could.

"Well, well, wife, I see there is something more than I'm permitted to know. But so this boy of ours gets a wife, and a good and pretty one, I don't care. He has been living too long in his dreams and his fancies, and his old bachelorhood, not for me to be glad of a prospect of "God bless the dear child," said the silver-change. Better late than never, even in matri smith's wife, fervently; only give me her mony." address, and she shall not want generous or thoughtful friends."

Thus in a few minutes Mrs. Gibbons held the address of the little Canonbury cottage in her hand; and after some further confidential conversation with Miss Moggs, she took her leave; though not before, kind soul, she had bought another strip of filmy lace to add to the treasures of the deep old drawer at home. She had heart enough to have hidden Potosi in it at that minute.

Hush, hush!" said his little wife, "it is wrong in you to talk so, and neither just to Grinling nor the stranger; though it is certain that our son deserves a good wife; for when he does love, it will be deeply and unalterably."

Thus checked in his surmises, the old gentleman now turned his attention again to the spoon. And so immensely delighted was he thereat that he must go at once to speak to his son and to his foreman; then, as he returned, he went aside, and gave orders that dear old Frisker be then Eagerly expecting her return, Grinling waited and there harnessed to the gig; and then he for her in the parlor. He knew by her bright proceeded without delay to put on his Sunday happy face that her search had been successful, coat, and one of his grandest holland shirts, with and he soon knew all the little history I have a big frill. He would not have made more fuss here set down. It was now arranged that she had he been going to carry the Buttercup Spoon should after dinner, when Grinling had retired, into the presence of the Queen herself. break out the little history of the spoon to her At length, somewhere about six o'clock or so, husband, for as yet its fabrication had been carefully guarded from his sight; and that after he had seen it and admired it-as he would, for his taste was excellent- they should both set off to Islington, and there seeking an interview with Miss Bassett, exhibit to her the beautiful result of her design, and hand over to her what further money was due. One thing only the little gentlewoman was guarded in-that was, not to hint one word of her son's feeling for this young girl.

"But he will soon guess it, my dear Grinling," hinted the little gentlewoman; "your father was always so quick at perceiving such things."

these good souls took their way from Hatton Garden towards pleasant Islington; Frisker in the sunniest of moods, and the two dogs perched up on the seat behind. They were going to make new friends as well as their master and mistress; and depend upon it, these little honest companions of our daily life love small episodes of this sort as well as those enriched by reason and by spirit. Ay! the time will come when we shall be more human even in our humanity for the brute; for as the more divinely Christian we become, so shall spread out the radius of our charity and of our tenderness!

When pretty Frisker stayed before the little

Failing in her courtesy, Mrs. Gibbons likewise failed in speech; but her hand rested tenderly on the young girl's arm.

"I think, ma'am, we have met before," said Lucy, "some five weeks ago, on Hampstead Heath. Come, let me give you a seat by my window-it is pleasant, though not quite so as where we first met." Saying this, she led the old lady towards the window, who passively obeyed, till reaching its strongest light, she stayed again. Here she raised her ungloved hand, and laid it tenderly on the young girl's

Lucy colored violently, as though annoyed and ashamed beyond expression. "I thought, ma'am," she faltered, "that Mrs. Carden would have kept my secret, for—”

Canonbury cottage, it might be seven o'clock. I fine heart to heart? Oh, simple little tender A tiny child, nursing a baby as big almost as meadow-flowers! Sweet buds and leaves of itself, was seated on the little plot front of turf, spring; sweet gilded cups of summer! and saying, when questioned by Mrs. Gibbons, "that mother and Nelly were gone to the shop," bid her and the gentleman walk up stairs, for that" the lady was at home." Very reluctantly the good gentlewoman consented, for she feared to trespass; but at length, leaving her husband in the care of Frisker, she entered the cottage, and went up the prettily-carpeted staircase, followed by Ben and Trim, who were anxious to see that little Penn, depend upon it! Some one within the room was reading or talking, but stayed the instant she knocked; and a sweet voice, other than the reader, said, "pray come head. in." Opening the door timidly, half reluctantly, "Is it possible," she said, in a low voice, as half withdrawing again, the old lady saw before though speaking to herself, "that one so very her the same young creature and the Blue-coat young, and small, and tender, can have done so boy she and her husband had met on Hamp-much alone and unaided, for herself and others; stead Heath. Rising immediately, Miss Bassett is it possible that these little hands wrought the came forward, and the old gentlewoman advan-rare design we have come to tell you of-The cing, they met in the middle of the room. The Buttercup Spoon!" latter tried to make a grand formal courtesy of respect, such as she might have achieved in her younger days in dancing the minuet de la cour, but stopped short, good soul, in the very middle of it. For she raised her face, and looked into that of the young girl, and the young girl into hers; and they could be no more strangers from that very instant, than brook meeting brook upon the untrodden lea can keep from mingling their pure and lucent waters. Yes, there are human creatures, that, meeting where they will, are at once friends-friends in spirit, if even no words pass between them: they seem to have met before; soul recognizes soul- heart flows into heart-their nature is one. This is a mystery of our being; a common one, however, that all more or less have had experience of; but not less is it a mystery for that. Beautiful as this is at all times, it was eminently so here: the tender human mother, with her large maternal heart, longed for a daughter on whom to beam her love; and a young small tender soul, cast on its re- "Oh! are you, are you?" she repeated many sources, and needing, even for pity's sake, even times, as though doubting what she heard. “Are for genius' sake, even for humanity's sake, some you the noble mother, and tender friend, Mrs. thoughtful heart to think for it and of it, as only Carden and Miss Moggs have so often told me mothers think. Oh! in this human life no need of? And has my little drawing of that spray, so sure as this, to those who fight the desolate served a useful purpose? Oh! I am so overjoylife of the lonely in great cities. There may be ed; for, hearing nothing through these past friends enough-every-day friends enough-call-weeks, I began to doubt its practicability for a ers-visitors-professors of a hundred things; but thou, O God! be merciful to those, be merciful to women, on whose uprising, on whose downlying, on whose tears to-day, whose smiles to-morrow no human care is shed. For the trial is mighty, and needing faith in Thee. Think of this-think of this, you who have homes and parents, and discontent can never come. The hand that writes this writes truth, and would write it in your hearts if it were possible.

But here the day of desolation is nearly at its close!

Did I not say so, little cups and buds! Rocked by the summer wind, cherished by the evening dew, fed by the balmy air, your simple, graceful natural loveliness is thus, through art, bringing

"There is nothing to be ashamed of, my dear," said Mrs. Gibbons, "and nothing that need be secret. My name is Gibbons, I am the wife and mother of the well-known manufacturing silversmiths of Hatton Garden, to whom your design was brought. And I and my good old husband have come, to-night, in a spirit of grateful and admiring courtesy, to show you the exquisite result of the design in its manufactured form, and to offer our earnest thanks, for it will prove of eminent service to us, in the forthcoming Exhibition; spoons and forks having been, for more than half a century, a staple of our house."

Deeper blushes dyed the young girl's face; but eagerness was in her words, and tenderness in their tone.

useful end. I thought I must return the money for it, for how could it be mine? On this account I refrained from sending further work; and thus I thought my honest hopes were dead. I have been impatient, I know-it is wrong of me;" but then she added, touchingly, as childlike, she laid her hands down on the tender mother's arm, "I have known so much sorrow!"

"Poor child!" spoke the maternal heart; and deep tears flowed up from their fountains, though wisely she restrained them; and added, in a cheerful voice, "But you must know no more, my dear, and shall not, if I can help it. But come, you must see the spoon-we are very fond of it, my dear, and so must you be." Then turning to the boy, who had been an attentive listener, she asked him to kindly step down, and